Sue Knowles
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Sue Knowles

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Sue is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who specialises in supporting the mental health and wellbeing of young people. Her passion Is creating stories, making meaning, and co-creating narratives, both within her writing and clinical work. She has experience of a wide range of writing styles from her academic papers, chapters and texts (primarily using a narrative or qualitative approach to analysis), the self-help books that she has written with a colleague and young people (published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton Limited), and her fiction writing. Sue has also provided consultancy and authenticity reading to publishers regarding children and young people’s mental health and emotional literacy and useful publishing in this area, and has reviewed books (and proposals) in this area. Sue is also the Lead for Child and Family Services at Changing Minds (CMCAFS), a dedicated team of Psychologists who provide high quality, innovative, meaningful work, and support people, organisations and wider systems collaboratively and compassionately through creative psychological practice. CMCAFS work closely with a range of organisations, both at a regional and national level, including children’s charities, Local Authorities, fostering and adoption support services, educational settings and residential care. CMCAFS provide specialist psychological services for children, young people, families, and teams and organisations who support them. This involves supporting partner organisations to provide a range of innovative services which strive to be truly psychologically informed, attachment and trauma-responsive, and meaningfully helpful. Sue, and her team, work with senior leaders and practitioners from various services across health, education and social care to incorporate systemic psychological thinking into their organisations. CMCAFS also works closely with universities and research teams to evaluate what we do, pilot new services, and design new, innovative provisions based upon evidence-informed practice. Sue has also worked closely with colleagues to develop the EVOLVING Leadership framework, which aims to support the development of psychologically responsive leadership within the health, social care and education workforces (and within other organisations which impact upon the lives of young people and families). To bring people together from different organisations to connect, be creative and share ideas, and reflect together and collaborative to bring about meaningful change. The framework also draws upon psychological research and theory, to inform leadership and organisational change, and to enhance psychological thinking more generally across organisations, with the aim of creating the most healthy, resilient and purposeful teams/systems. Sue is also research supervisor for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course at Lancaster University. She has a range of academic publications from her own research and the studies that she supervises, and is a peer reviewer. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susan-Knowles-3
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